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To be near unto God - pagina 141
"WITH ALL THY SOUL." When the question is raised whether there is one that seeks after God, the Psalmist denies it ''They are all gone and bitterly complains: aside, there is none that doeth good, no, not one. There is none that understandeth, there is none But was the seeketh after God" (14:3). ...
To be near unto God - pagina 142
Does this man or woman, when the has passed the hps, come away from God, or has the soul, even in devotions, been as far as ever away from him? Undoubtedly there are always some who in praj'-er and at other times seek fellowship with God in their heart. Upon inquiry, however, we learn that the ma ...
To be near unto God - pagina 144
altogether and with all its strength to God. In no other realm of life, therefore, does it show more strongly than in religion how utterly abnormal the soul has become by sin. And the worst of it is, that in this matter of religion the soul itself is so little conscious of it. He who has committe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 145
obtained along other Hnes than those of and in these he is proWith utmost pains he traces what the ficient. great thinkers have put into their several doctrinal systems regarding the Being, Work, Person and Attributes of God. On this he ponders. To him it appeals. He prides himself on it before H ...
To be near unto God - pagina 143
Fromancient writings we see peoand move before us, and things oi the past appear like things of the All sorts of currents and schools and present. tendencies of thought are ever abroad, one one Unanimity there is waj' and the other another. none. Seeking God with all the heart is unknown. ...
To be near unto God - pagina 146
greatl3'whenaman becomesinwardly athirst forGod.Thepity of it is that so far from realizing these w^orkings, powers and exertions are bound to express themselves in love of God, so that loving God with all the soul may become real, the children of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 147
make forms andfigures of idols after themannerheathen nations, but these are contrivances pure and simple. And in this matter of knowing God, which is eternal life, we have no interest in cunningly constructed fabrications. We want reality. Hence we would say that there can b ...
To be near unto God - pagina 148
has also used observable representation, however transient.In the New. as well as in the Old Testament, of angel-appearances and of appearances of the Messiah before his incarnaAnd are not angels spirits like God himtion. self, incorporeal and immaterial? We hear repeatedly that angels app ...
To be near unto God - pagina 149
angel, of the Messiah, or as in Isaiah 6, of the Eternal Being himself, takes place in human form, in human dress, and with the use of human lanWith appearances of angels there is no guage. mention of wings, borrowed from the animal world; of these we read in connection with Seraphs surrounding G ...
To be near unto God - pagina 150
In connection, therefore, with the is eternal life, the imagof our spirit must also be considered.appearances.knowledge of God, which inative lifeto this secret is, that spirit and matter, the world, are distinguished from one in such a way that it can never beThe key ...
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